Perfect storm of factors including politicized jailing of medics and vaccination program head is fuelling a runaway health crisis
Volunteers wearing personal protective equipment carry the body of a
Covid victim during their funeral in Mandalay on July 14, 2021. Photo:
AFP
Myanmar is facing a catastrophic health crisis that could have ramifications not just for the country’s long-suffering people, but across the region as well.
The country is experiencing a major spike in Covid cases — what one Doctors Without Borders official referred to as “uncontrolled community spread” — fuelled by the military junta’s gross mismanagement of the crisis and a collapsing health sector.
The country is experiencing a major spike in Covid cases — what one Doctors Without Borders official referred to as “uncontrolled community spread” — fuelled by the military junta’s gross mismanagement of the crisis and a collapsing health sector.